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Adapted from an article by
Curtis
Peter Van Gorder

2. Everything that Jesus
said on the cross was
a different expression
of His love.
His Words spoken
then still move people
today.

3. How could Jesus say that any of these people didn’t know what they were doing?
To a certain degree they had to, but they didn’t realize the enormity of what they
were doing—that they were killing the Son of God.
In asking His Father to forgive those who had turned on Him and those who had
carried out His execution, Jesus actually spoke in their defense, and in so doing
proved in the most powerful way possible that He believed what He had taught:
“Love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you,
and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you” (Matthew 5:44).
Now He wants us to have that much love, that much forgiveness.

4. Jesus spoke these words to the repentant thief who was crucified beside Him.
The following true story shows the present-day effect of these words. A
couple in Mexico was robbed of their credit cards, papers, and cash. Some
friends prayed with them that they would be able to overcome the trauma of the
theft and that the stolen items would be recovered.
A week later the couple received a thick envelope in the mail. All of their
valuables were inside. So was a note, which was signed, “From a repentant
robber.” There also was a drawing of three crosses. The cross on the right was
circled.
Jesus’ mercy and forgiveness still change people today.

5. Jesus spoke these words to His mother and to John, the closest of His
disciples, as He looked down on them from the cross.
Jesus understood the void that the end of His earthly life would leave in
each of theirs, and that they could each help fill that void for the other.
Jesus loved them so much that even in the midst of His most trying
hour, He saw the needs of His loved ones and did something about it.
Thereafter, John cared for Mary as his own mother, and Mary loved
John as her own son.

6. At a center for the handicapped that is run by the Missionaries of Charity,
the Catholic order that Mother Teresa founded. I noticed a large banner
on the wall that read “I thirst,” and I asked why they had chosen these
two last words of Jesus.
“That cry of Christ has become our rallying cry,” one of the sisters
explained. “Shortly before she passed on to her heavenly reward,
Mother Teresa said, ‘His thirst is without end. He, the Creator of all,
pleads for the love of His creation. He thirsts for our love.
These words, “I thirst,” do they not echo in our

7. “What caused Jesus the greatest agony on the cross was not our sins, because
He knew that we were going to be forgiven and saved. What broke His heart was
thinking that His Father had turned His back on Him. Jesus went through an
experience that, thank God, we will never have to go through—not just
crucifixion, not just the agony of the body, but the agony of mind and spirit,
feeling that God had actually deserted Him. ‘My God, My God,’ He cried out, ‘why
have You forsaken Me?’ (Matthew 27:46). Had God forsaken Him?
Yes, momentarily, that He might die the death of a sinner, without God.
“Jesus took upon Himself the sins of the whole world on the cross (1 Peter 2:24),
and these sins separated Him from His Father. He voluntarily gave Himself to die
in our place—He loves us that much!”

8. What was it that He finished?
On the same evening that Jesus hung on the cross, the
Passover lamb was being sacrificed.
Like the blood of the lamb saved the Hebrew people from
destruction in Egypt, Jesus’ blood—the ultimate Passover
sacrifice—redeems us from the power of sin and death.
When He died on the cross His work was done, and our
salvation was won!

9. Jesus, help us to trust our lives to You
and live to please You, like You trusted
Your life to the Father and lived to please
Him. Then what a day of rejoicing that will
be when we see You face to face and
enter into our heavenly reward—eternal
life and love with You and the Father!
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10. Jesus, help us to trust our lives to You
and live to please You, like You trusted
Your life to the Father and lived to please
Him. Then what a day of rejoicing that will
be when we see You face to face and
enter into our heavenly reward—eternal
life and love with You and the Father!
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